And Rehoboam slept with his fathers, and was buried with his fathers in the city of David,.... Where David and Solomon were buried, 1Ki 2:10 and his mother's name was Naamah, an Ammonitess; which is repeated, that it might be observed as what was the leading step to his idolatry, and the means of his continuing in it:and Abijam his son reigned in his stead; of whom there is a further account in the following chapter.
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1 Kings 14:31
1 Kings 14:31
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Rehoboam: 1 Kings 14:20, 1 Kings 11:43, 1 Kings 15:3, 1 Kings 15:24, 1 Kings 22:50; 2 Chronicles 12:16
his mother's: 1 Kings 14:21
Abijam: Dr. Kennicott observes, that the name of this king of Judah…